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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Savorfull provides its Detroit, Michigan, business clients with a surprise mix of healthy, allergy-free (“free from”) snacks delivered straight to their offices for a small monthly fee. reviews, reputation, Yelp!, She wanted to know what kind of problems they were having in order to find a way to help solve them. “I Adi’s advice.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders. The DXF Institute will offer in-depth full-day and multi-day learning experiences in Detroit. These experiences will focus on innovation and inspiration by using Detroit as a classroom.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

In April of 2014, ESPN released its latest entry in the “30 for 30″ series, telling the story of the Detroit Pistons during their infamous “Bad Boys” era. But there, sandwiched between dynasties and legacies, the Detroit Pistons had built a championship team on the back of Isaiah Thomas. I run over and…I panicked.”.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Voodoo made its reputation with aggressively-styled PCs, emblazoned with tribal tattoo-like designs and bright colors. Earlier, Sood was working for Hewlett-Packard, which had acquired his company VoodooPC, a boutique maker of high-end gaming computers, in 2006.

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

Both Sides of the Table

27:00 John: Trust and reputation are hard to earn and easily lost. Thank you also to Detroit Venture Partners. 1:19:15 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law and Detroit Venture Partners. 21:00 We’re unquestionably moving towards more democratization, which is a good thing, yes? 25:15 Did you follow the Quora scandal?

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Who knows exactly how these factors combine to booststartups in Silicon Valley and squish them in Detroit, but itsclear they do from the number of startups per capita in each. The danger here is that you ruin your reputation. Afterthat theres not much.

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Jonathon Triest of Ludlow Ventures: “VC Done Right” (and in Detroit)

Hunter Walker

You meet interesting people backstage at conferences and in 2013 that included Jonathon Triest who started Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures. I went out west and started knocking down the doors of the most reputable investors that I had been reading about. HW: Sooooo Detroit VC scene. I was smitten. No turning back.

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